She said: “I always walk past the school. All my family went to the school, we’ll have more family going there too. In years to come they’ll have kids that wouldn’t have met Jackson but they’ll know that that’s Jackson’s tree.

“I like that idea. He wasn’t here for a long time. A lot of our family in the future aren’t going to have met him. I can say, ‘That’s your uncle’s tree’ or ‘That’s your cousin’s tree’.”

Jackson's Tree

Lynsey also spoke of the difficulty of the last few months.

She said: “It’s been ups and downs. Good days and bad. Me and Ally sort of keep each other right. She still asks questions, she’s still not 100% why he can’t come back.

"We’re reassuring her all the time.

“She asked me why we were planting a tree and I said that at home everytime you look at his pictures or toys, well it’s just the same in school: The kids want something to remind them of Jackson.”

Lynsey will return to work at Sullatober Day Care in Carrickfergus at the end of this month.

“I’m really lucky to be a part of Carrick as a whole,” she said, “it really has come together and really opened my eyes about how generous and how kind people are.

Jackson touched everybody, that’s the kind of person he was. When he went somewhere you remembered him.

“I still get people who come up to me and say, ‘You’re Jackson’s mummy aren’t you?’ and they’ll give me a random story.

“Someone told me when I dropped the two of them off at the school gates, he was supposed to go to his playground and she was supposed to go to hers.

“More often than not he took her round to her own playground, made sure she was OK and hung he coat up for her. And it was just because he was a big brother. People used to say ‘Jackson hurry up, you have to go to your own playground’.

“And he’d say ‘No no I have to take Ally first’. That makes me smile.”